By NAHB
The Senate on Oct. 9 passed NAHB-supported housing legislation that offers meaningful solutions to increase the nation’s housing supply by addressing key concerns around zoning and land-use policies, the aging housing stock, rural housing, and multifamily housing.
“NAHB applauds the Senate for passing a bipartisan housing package to fix the housing crisis by addressing our nation’s critical lack of housing supply,” said NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes. “Building more homes is the only way to ease America’s housing affordability crisis, and the ROAD to Housing Act includes favorable provisions aimed at zoning and land-use policies, rural housing and multifamily housing that will stimulate construction of sorely needed housing.”
The ROAD to Housing Act directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop best practices with key stakeholders, such as home builders and developers, to provide state and local governments with an array of options to increase housing production. Similarly, there is a provision to reward communities that welcome housing growth with more Community Development Block Grant funding.
